| LC control no. | n 85378433 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Halford, Frederic M. (Frederic Michael), 1844-1914 |
| Variant(s) | Halford, F. M. (Frederic Michael), 1844-1914 Halford, Frederic Michael, 1844-1914 |
| Located | London (England) |
| Birth date | 1844-04-13 |
| Death date | 1914-03-05 |
| Place of birth | Birmingham (England) |
| Place of death | England Thames River (England) |
| Affiliation | Flyfishers' Club |
| Special note | Pseudonym not found on published works: Detached Badger. |
| Found in | Floating flies and how to dress them, 1886: t.p. (Frederic M. Halford) The dry-fly man's handbook, [1913]: title page (by Frederic M. Halford, "Detached Badger" of "The field") Dry-fly fishing, 1973 (usage: F.M. Halford) LC data base, 5/20/87 (hdg.: Halford, Frederic Michael, 1844-1914; usage: F.M. Halford) Wikipedia, viewed 6 March 2024: Frederic M. Halford (born Frederic Maurice Hyam, 13 April 1844, in Birmingham, England, to a wealthy Jewish family that moved to London when Frederic was 7 and changed their name to Halford in 1875; attended University College School from the age of 7 till 1860, when he went to work in one of the family's textiles businesses, retiring in 1889 to become a full-time angler; most noted for his development and promotion of the dry fly technique on English chalk streams and generally accepted as "The Father of Modern Dry Fly Fishing"; a founding members of the British Flyfishers' Club; took winter vacations in Europe and the Mediterranean, caught pneumonia on a return voyage and died 5 March 1914 aboard the P&O liner Morea in the River Thames; used the pseudonym Detached Badger) |
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